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DETROIT-When you are trying to send Hot Wheels cars through a giant loop, you can tell you're getting a good run by the sound. If it's consistent and quiet, like a drop of water sizzling on a hot skillet, you're got a shot to make the loop.

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"You should come to our office and try on our exoskeleton," Nathan Harding told me at a group dinner. That is an offer a nerd cannot refuse. So I went. Harding is CEO of Ekso Bionics, a company that has been making battery-powered exoskeletons for medical and rehabilitation applications.

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Due out September 20 for most home consoles, the fifth game in the series amps up the action by introducing 20 different vehicles to Skylands. They'll come in land, sea, and air varieties, so expect a colorful assortment of tanks, dragsters, submarines, choppers, and jets to clutter up your living room this fall.

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Pebble recently began sending very happy emails: It is telling backers of its Kickstarter campaign for the new Pebble Time smartwatch that their watches are on the way. But then Pebble dropped a bomb: The iOS software necessary to set up and use the Pebble Time watch with an iPhone is "still in review," at Apple.

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Yes, they may spend their days coveting the latest technology, but what they crave most, in my experience, is a dank cave where the air is sweetly fouled by the aroma of cigar smoke and there's a complete absence of window treatments or cleaning products. The man cave: Every man hankers for one.

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Google is continuing its push into the virtual world with a second version of Cardboard, its smartphone holder that converts any phone into a display for a virtual reality headset. The company also announced a new rig to hold cameras for creating surround video, software to stitch the images together into a cohesive VR scene, and a program to bring virtual reality "field trips" to schools.

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FILE - In this April 13, 2014 file photo, the Internal Revenue Service Headquarters (IRS) building is seen in Washington. Thieves used an online service provided by the IRS to gain access to information from more than 100,000 taxpayers, the agency said Tuesday. The information included tax returns and other tax information on file with the IRS.

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To check out one possible future of video entertainment, I recently took a trip to the headquarters of the virtual reality content company, Jaunt VR, in Palo Alto, California. Then I talked with one man who is using VR and other new forms of video to tell stories: the writer, director, and actor Paul Feig.

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Smartphone navigation? Solved. Modern apps will even route you around traffic, automatically picking the most efficient way to get where you're going. That's The VoicePark sensor embedded in a sample slap of street. (Photo: Rafe Needleman/Yahoo) What we don't have, yet, is an app that will reliably tell you where to park once you get where you're going.

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Here I am at Wearable World Congress in San Francisco, trying out the CreoPop 3D pen . It might be the gateway drug to 3D printing. The CreoPop is a 3D pe, like the 3Doodler you may have seen before. It does the same thing. But, technically, it's a very different device.